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And where did the Romans get it from? Egypt? I guess it couldn’t have been China, because they were also doing their own version of this several thousand miles away.
The Romans were very open to having foreigners become citizens. Especially in the context of their time period.
And enslaving a significant chunk of those foreigners, too.